1. I flip my "v" and my "w" if I speak consecutive words beginning with these (FOBulous.)

2.  Speaking of Indianness, I named our new dog Boston...except the way my parents say it, it sounds like "Bastard" :(

3.  On my "Bucket List" is developing my own pictures in a dark room- ya know, old school style.

4.  My friend Brian is in India and I miss him.

5.  I love staring at my book case full of the books I love bought from mostly used bookstores.  My favorite is Like Water for Chocolate.  I am currently devouring the book Kite Runner right now.  That sounds funny but you know what I mean.

6.  I love when friends make me mixed C.D.s because often it forces me out of my music rut and broadens my musical taste.

7.  I am so sensitive to coffee.  It forces me to stay awake for over 24 hours.

8.  I subscribe to Glamour and Reader's Digest.  Sigh. I know.

9.  Well, okay I have stuffed dog and a stuffed rabbit that always remain on or in my bed.  Not for snuggling.  I just like to know they're there.  Nothing wrong with that.

10.  I am on a big learning to cook kick.  My mom is fantastic at making Indian food and I want to take advantage of it.  It relaxes me too.

11.  I still feel like I am essentially the same person I was when I was seventeen and that really bothers me.

12.  I certainly have OCD regarding certain things but I don't want to admit to specifics.  Only people who have lived with me know of them.

13.  My favorite escape from reality these days is to watch movies.  My favorite genres are romantic comedies, independent and foreign. 

14.  Rain puts me in a good mood.  My favorite thing to do is to crawl into bed with a good movie or a good book.

15.  My top three upcoming destinations are as follows: 1) France, 2) Santorini, Greece and 3) Mexico

16.  My official birthday on all my formal documents is different from my actual birthday which I celebrate.  It's a pain in the butt and makes me feel like a liar all the time.

17.  I talk to God all the time but I still haven't figured out how to hear him.

18.  I think California is the best place to live in the U.S. hands down and I feel very fortunate to do so.  However, I would like to live in New York for one or two years.  Like really badly.

19.  I am secretly afraid that researchers will come out with a proven study that shows consumption of too many soy products and/or gum causes cancer, AIDs, herpes etc and I will be screwed.

20.  I feel like I just don't get enough hugs these days.   I am definitely deficient in the hugs department.

21. Two of my top four favorite people on earth are under the age of five.  They make me really happy and I feel blessed to have them in my life.

22.   I was at a department store yesterday and I saw a muumuu which had a tag that said "One Size Fits Most."  Hilarious and sad state of affairs.

23.  I am trying really hard to get a job in or around Long Beach so I can live with my good friend Tiff who really needs a new roommate.  I also hope to make friends with Snoop whilst residing there.

24.  I have a not so secret desire to be part of a street hip-hop group and enter battles where we blow the competition away with our innovative and sometimes sexy moves.

25.  I like doing these cheesy quizzes more than I would like to admit.

 I actually started liking number 13 before he pulled the God card and called it off.  My theory is that he thought I was too short.  Number 14 never really happened formally, we talked w/o parents being involved but I wasn't attracted to him and I just don't feel like he's driven.  14 and I are friends though bc he has cool taste in music and he'll listen to me talk-both excellent qualities in a friend :)

Number 15 was the most effecient experience.  I suppose you don't get this far in this whole process without starting to figure out what just won't work.  Number 15 and I just wouldn't work and it was obvious enough that we didn't get past the first conversation.  He needs a modern day nun and I need a guy who owns a T.V. bc seriously, I have to be able to talk to you about The Office or the hypothetical marriage would be doomed.  Fer sure.

So then, there's me alone and I can't help but think...maybe it's me.  A week before Valentine's Day and the world around has made like Noah's ark grouping themselves in to adorable pairs and still I can't find ONE feasible realationship?  Even if I could figure out what needs to change.  I just don't want to...I like me.  Now I need to like he. And the he has to like me...so my parents can't breathe out as as we become a "we."

Okay, stupid rhyming. There are other things going on in my life other than this but this is the one place I can vent about this particular issue and I will take advantage of it for my own sanity.